Combined vaporizer and homogenizer for explosive-engines.



V. C. SPARKS.

COMBINED VAPORIZER AND HOMOGENIZER FOR EXPLOSIVE ENGINES.

APPLICATION HLED MAR. 16, 1916.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

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COIRIBZIFED VAPOEIZER AND HOMOGENIZIER FOR EXFLOSIVE-ENGINES. v

, av Application filed March 16, 1916. Serial No. 84,703.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VERNON C. SPARKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented a new and useful Combined Vaporizer and Ho1nogenizer for Explosive-Engines, of which the following is e specification in such full and clear terms as will enable those skilled in the art to construct and use the same.

This invention relates to a combined vaporizer liomogenizer for explosive engines and its object is to. provide means whyeby heavy fuel such as dietilietes or coal oil may be used as e substitute for gasolene.

An object of the invention is to provide a vaporizer which will be capable of starting the engine on a comparativeiy heavy fuel even when the fuel is cold, means being progvided in the vaporizer for breaking up the fuel in exceedingly fine particles, thereby producing a: sufi'icient quantity of explosive gas to give the engine enough power to start and as soon as the engine has turned over a few times the boot from the exploded,

gas will be suiiioient to cause the/ generator to deliver enough to run the engine with its iull power Ann embodiment of the invention is shown in drawing in which the some reference numeral is applied to the some portion throughout, but I am'awere that there-may be many modifications thereof.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an explosion' engine having this invention applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is e vertical sectional view thro gh the generator showing the position of too screens which: break. up

the incoming r'fuei into. a suriiciently finely disseminuted to explode.

Iln the drawing the numeral 1* indicates a common type of fourcylinder engine having the exhaust manifold 52 and inlet manifold 3 for all 01? the cylinders This device is installed on the inlet manifold 3 as indicated at tend it has a pipe 5 extendingfrom the exhaust manifold therein and another pipe 6 extending to the exhaust discharge pipe 7 to prevent the discharges of gas from niah iug any more noise than they would ord narily when discharged through the mufiler.

This heater has a flanged coupling 8 .secured edits lower end to which the cor bureter 9 is secured, said carburetor being of any well known type, and having its Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

throttle valve operated by means of a rod 10 in a Well known manner. The heater consists of a cylinder 4 having an inlet fitting 12 at its upper end and a fitting 13 at its said tube extends entirely through the g heater 4. This tube has it fine Wire screen extending transversely across the top thereof as. indicated at 16, said screen being large enough to be seated on top of the heater to hold the remaining screens and the rod to which they are connected in the proper place.

The screen 16 is held in place between the manifold 3 and heater 4 by means of the bolts 17 and 18 and at its center it has a threaded rod 19 extending therethrough and connected therewith by means of suitable nuts which rod supports'five other fiiie, screens at suitable distances from each other.

The screens 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 are all cut soout of a disk somewhat larger than the pipe or tube 14 withinwhie they are placed; so

that the edge of each disk points downward and is in contact with the tube 14 a considerable distance, thereby assisting in absorbing 8 5,

the heat and transmittingit to the fuel passing through the tube. The tube 14 is made of such size with respect to the opening of the carburetor that thescreens therein will.

I allowsubstantialivthe same freeerea as 9?} the free area of the carburetor, thereby preventing its operation f our being interfered with in any Way. -c

With this heater installed on an explosion a grade of fuel much heavier than 'is poss'i ble with the ordinary carburetor not having a heater installed betweerprthe carburetor aud'manifcld, and it is also possible to start th'e'engine on a. heavy grade offuel" even 'clently explosive mixture is obtained to start I the engine, and as soon' as the engine has been run for a short tune the eng nefwill run up to its full power and speed because I the screens ubsorb'enough heat-t0 properly vaporize the fuel. g

An advantage of this heater lies in the. fact that not only is it possible to use a v enginefit is possible to run the engine with" 95 heavier grade of fuel than is possible Witl the ordinary carbureter, but that by heating ters jPatent oi the United States, is as follows; express reservation being made of permissible modifications:

'1. A gas generator for explosion engines comprising a tubular extension of the inlet manifold a. heating chamber formed around said tubular extension of the inlet manifold, a pipe leading from the exhaust manifold to the heating chamber, a earbureter coin nected with the heater, a plurality of inverted cup shaped screens frictionally enguging the interior oi the heater through which the fuel must pass to reach the engine.

and Illfffll'lSiO hold the screens in a 1mm position.

9. A gas generator for explosion engines comprising a tubular extension of the inlet manifold of the engine, a heating chamber formed around said tubular extension of the inlet manifold a pipe leading from the exhaust- .manifold to said heating chamber, a carbi'lretei. connected with the lower end of the heater, a. transversely placed screen across the upper end of the heater, a rod passing through the center of said screen. and a plurality of other screens connected to said rod and frictionally engaging said tubular member whereby the ire screens are heated to gasiii the fuel as it passes throrigh the heater.

l'n test'iinon whereof I have hereunto set in hand this 10th day of March, A. D. 1916.

V ERNON C. SPARKS. 

